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  • Crowded cities search for nature-based solutions for residents' well-being

    March 05, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Italy, Milan

    A new investment project, worth almost 11.4 million euro, is creating public green spaces in concrete jungles across Europe. The projects include green roofs, parks, street trees, and more, all worked on in collaboration with local governments and organizations -- but concerns exist about their overall impact and the possibility of what some have termed "green gentrification."

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  • Two mothers, a son's death, and the struggle for forgiveness

    March 02, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Baltimore, Maryland

    Two women travel on a journey seeking to heal pain through forgiveness with the help of a program in Baltimore that brings together mothers who have lost sons to violence. One woman's son was murdered and the other woman's son is standing trial for that crime. This article shows how complex and long such a process can be and doesn't sugarcoat the difficulty of reconciliation.

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  • Can schools help rid the world of sexual harassers and abusers?

    February 28, 2018 |

    The Christian Science Monitor |

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    Response Location: Iceland, Reykjavík

    How do we combat gender violence? Gender inequality? Transphobia? Well, in school. “You want to start this conversation in kindergarten.” Across the world, a slew of schools, programs, and teachers are bringing gender to the classroom.

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  • Whose nature? Colorado leads push to democratize the outdoors.

    February 16, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, Denver, Colorado

    Those living in low-income neighborhoods and classified as economically disadvantaged are less likely to have the opportunity to spend time in the outdoors. A series of initiatives throughout the state of Colorado aim to change this by expanding access and help get minority and lower-income children into more nature.

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  • At crossroads of policing and murder, a long push for accountability

    February 15, 2018 |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Criticism and protests led by community activists in NY led to wide scale changes in NYPD’s policing, it resulted in a large decrease at the unequal way the NYPD racially profiled black and latino men. Many of this activism was led by the mothers of young black men killed at the hands of NYPD. In Baltimore, mothers are also coalescing around the same issue, but they’re taking a different approach.

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  • Fighting sexism, India's police ask: When is 'women only' good for women?

    February 14, 2018 |

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    Response Location: India, Jaipur, Rajasthan

    All-female police units in Jaipur are patrolling hotspots for sexual harassment and gender-based violence, such as bus stops and parks. Among the first in India, these units, as well as all-women police stations, are an effort to protect women’s rights and encourage more girls and women to report abuse. However, such efforts may slow the mainstreaming of women into the police force and leave broader societal attitudes about women’s rights unchanged.

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  • Can foreign policy be feminist? Sweden says yes.

    February 07, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Sweden

    Sweden is the first country to put gender equality at the center of its foreign policy, calling the protection of women and girls’ human rights one of the greatest challenges of the century. Announced in 2014, the stance has both inspired and antagonized other countries, as well as sometimes conflicting with Sweden’s other policy goals.

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  • In push to 'fast track' women into office, gender quotas gain traction

    January 17, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Costa Rica

    Starting in the mid 1980s and 1990s, African and Latin American countries began to implement “gender quotas” to integrate more women in politics. Now, “12 of the top 20 countries in the world for women’s legislative representation are in Africa and Latin America.”

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  • How to enforce gender equality? Iceland tests the waters

    January 10, 2018 |

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    Response Location: Iceland, Reykjavík

    Although Iceland has ranked the most gender equal nation in the world by The Word Economic Forum, there is still a gender pay gap. A new law might change that. Iceland has become the first, and only country to punish companies that pay women less than men.

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  • How France became a global leader in curbing food waste

    January 03, 2018 |

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    Response Location: France

    Around the world, "1.3 billion metric tons, or one-third of all the food produced, is thrown away.” France is tackling the issue, by becoming the first country to make it illegal for grocery stores to throw away unused food.

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